News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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Latest events . . .
Are We Living in a Post-democratic Society?, Wolfson College, Oxford
Deepfakes and the Law, City, University of London: call for expressions of interest
Constitutional Communities, KU Leuven, Belgium: call for papers
There Be Dragons: The Post-Brexit Legal Landscape of Northern Ireland, online and UCL Faculty of Laws
Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law: Doctrines of Legal Insanity, Royal Institute of Philosophy, London
The Death Penalty: A colonial relic?, Gresham College, London
Incentivising Law, UCL, London
Launch of the Fairness Innovation Challenge, Royal Society, London
Scarman Lecture 2023: Policing and Sexual Violence, University of Leicester
CLP – The New Law on Sexual Assault and Rape in Germany, UCL Faculty of Laws
Walk: City Pubs – Gray’s Inn to Temple, Guildhall Library, London
Public Discourse on Children as Victims and Perpetrators of Violent Crime, Aston University, Birmingham
English Law and EU Law: Still two separate worlds?, Instituto Cervantes, London
Association of Law Teachers: Three events open to all, Bartolomé House, University of Sheffield
SLSA events and co-sponsored events
Regulation & the Common Good, University of Sheffield: registration now open
2023
Autumn
Global Corporate Law Seminar Series: Technology and corporate law – in person and online: call for papers
Dates: tbc
Venues: in person and online
See announcement and website for further details. Closing date: 30 September 2023.
September
The Social History of Legal Responses to Infectious Disease
Date: 22 September 2023
Venue: Bentham House, University College London
See website for details.
Influencing Law Reform: Tips for effective engagement with the Law Commission
Date: 22 September 2023
Venue: online
This event is jointly organised by the Law Commission, Society of Legal Scholars, SLSA and Assocation of Law Teachers. See announcement for details.
RCSL Sociology of Constitutions Working Group Annual Meeting
Dates: 26–28 September 2023
Venue: Fermo, Italy
Theme: The People in Societal Constitutions: Politics, Semantics and Theories
See announcement for details.
Scarman Lecture 2023: Policing and Sexual Violence
Date: 27 September 2023
Venue: University of Leicester
Speakers: Manjit Atwal QPM (Head of Violence Against Women and Girls Programme, College of Policing) and Jayne Butler (Chief Executive Officer, Rape Crisis England and Wales)
See website for details.
The Death Penalty: A colonial relic?
Date: 28 September 2023
Venue: Gresham College, London
Speaker: Professor Leslie Thomas KC
See website for details. Also available to watch live online.
Public Discourse on Children as Victims and Perpetrators of Violent Crime
Date: 28 September 2023
Venue: Aston University, Birmingham
See website for details.
2023 COI congress: Just institutional approaches to conflict prevention and resolution
Dates: 28–29 September 2023
Venue: Utrecht University
See website for details.
October
Poverty in Scotland, JRF webinar
Date: 2 October 2023
Venue: online from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
See website for details and registration.
Incentivising Law
Date: 2 October 2023
Vene: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Dr Kara Woodbury-Smith, Durham Law School)
Chair: Professor Kevin Toh, UCL
See website for details.
‘Seeing like a cop’: Visuality and Coloniality in Spaces of Gendered Criminalisation
Date: 3 October 2023
Venue: Birkbeck, University of London, and online
Speaker: Dr Emma Russell, La Trobe University
Discussant: Dr Megan McElhone, Birkbeck
Chair: Dr Sarah Lamble, Birkbeck
See website for details.
Centre for Law and Social Justice Launch Webinar
Date: 4 October 2023
Venue: online
See website for details.
Feeling Pain and Shame: Mapping the emotional grammar of banning ‘conversion therapy’
Date: 4 OCtober 2023
Venue: University of Sheffield
Speaker: Dr Senthorun Raj, Reader at the Manchester Metropolitan University
Followed by drinks and refreshments. See website for details.
Brain/Mind Interface: Clinical and Medicolegal Challenges
Date: 5 October 2023
Venue: Royal College of Physicians, London
See website for details.
SAFI Conference on Punishment
Dates: 5–7 October 2023
Venue: Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
See website for details.
JUSTICE Human Rights Conference 2023
Date: 6 October 2023
Venue: Linklaters, London
See website for details.
Reimagining Equalities Law from the Grassroots
Date: 6 October 2023
Venue: University of Kent
See website for details.
International Access to Justice Forum 2023
Dates: 11–13 October 2023
Venue: University of California Irvine
Hosted by UCI Law’s Initiative for Inclusive Civil Justice and the Victoria Law Foundation. See announcement for details.
Legal Challenges of the Globalised World: should the law protect and realise rights?
Date: 12 October 2023
Venue: online organised by Dnipro Humanitarian University, St Mary’s University and the University of Westminster
See announcement for details.
Judicial Review Trends and Forecasts 2023: Power and the law – Public Law Project Annual Conference
Date: 12 October 2023
Venue: Herbert Smith, London
See website for details.
Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture – Radical transparency: reforming parole to increase public confidence
Date: 12 October 2023
Venue: Law Society, London
Speaker: Professor Stephen Shute, Professor of Criminal Law & Criminal Justice
See website for details.
130 Years of Law: Including keynote lecture by Sir Stephen Cobb
Date: 12 October 2023
Venue: University of Liverpool
See website for details.
English Law and EU Law: Still two separate worlds?
Date: 13 October 2023
Venue: Instituto Cervantes, London
See website for details.
Law and Things: Juridical and bureaucratic techniques in Latin America
Dates: 16 October–8 November 2023
Venue: online seminar series
Organised by Dr Ignacio Riquel and Dr Javiera Araya. See website for details. Note that conference materials are currently only available in Spanish.
The Beatles and the Law – Mr Justice Foxton
Date: 18 October 2023
Venue: University of Liverpool
See website for details.
Regulation & the Common Good: registration now open
Date: 18 October 2023
Venue: University of Sheffield
See website for details of call and speakers. This event is supported by the SLSA through our one-day conference programme.
Are We Living in a Post-democratic Society?
Date: 18 October 2023
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford
Speaker: Professor Colin Crouch
See announcement for details of this Oxford Law in Societies Cluster event.
There Be Dragons: The Post-Brexit Legal Landscape of Northern Ireland
Date: 18 October 2023
Venue: online and UCL Faculty of Laws
Speaker: Professor Christopher McCrudden, Profelssor of Human Rights and Equality Law, Queen’s University Belfast; William W Cook Global Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
See website for details.
Family Law Breakfast: Litigation lending levelled? Funding in a post Simon v Simon world
Date: 19 October 2023
Venue: Charles Russell Speechlys, 5 Fleet Place, London
Keynote speaker: Sir Andrew McFarlane
See website and announcement for details.
Launch of the Fairness Innovation Challenge
Date: 19 October 2023
Venue: Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London
See website for details.
Argumentation 2023
Date: 20 October 2023
Venue: Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
Theme: Performativity in law
See announcement and website for for details.
PAST Records Workshop – Modern Legal Records
Date: 26 October 2023
Venue: National Archives, Richmond
See website for details.
Socio-Legal Journals Global South Writing Workshops 2023–2025: Workshop 1
Dates: 26–27 October 2023
Venues: Kabarak Law School, Kenya, Ghana Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Accra, and online
See poster and announcement for full details.
November
CLP – The New Law on Sexual Assault and Rape in Germany
Date: 2 November 2023
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws
Speaker: Professor Dr Tatjana Hörnle, Max Planck Institute
See website for details.
Association of Law Teachers: Three events open to all
Date: 2 November 2023
Venue: Bartolomé House (Moot Court), School of Law, University of Sheffield
The three events are:
- Workshop on the QAA Subject Benchmark Statement for Law
- Trail of Legal Heroism: Official Launch
- The Association of Law Teachers Annual Lord Upjohn Lecture 2023
See website for details. All events are free.
AHRC Being Human Festival 2023: call for applications
Dates: 9–18 November 2023
Venues: UK-wide
See website for details. Closing dates vary.
Sexual Autonomy, Protection and Identity in Care Settings
Date: 10 November 2023
Venue: Northumbria Law School (with some online sessions)
See announcement for details.
Walk: City Pubs – Gray’s Inn to Temple
Date: 10 November 2023
Venue: meet in Chancery Lane Station.
Organised by the Guildhall Library, London. See website for details.
The Meaning of Brexit and the Future of the Union
Date: 14 November 2023
Venue: Canada Room and Council Chamber, Queen's University Belfast
Speaker: Professor David Reynolds FBA
See website for details of this British Academy event.
Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries: Legal histories, local histories online from the Open University: call for papers
Date: 16 November 2023
Venue: online from the Open University Law School Legal Histories research cluster
See website for details. Call closes: 12 October 2023.
16th Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory
Date: 21–22 November 2023
Venue: Melbourne Law School, Australia
Theme: Translation, Transformation and Transgression
See announcement for details.
December
Aristotle (and Aristotelianism) on Justice and (In)equality: Contemporary projections – call for papers
Dates: 6–7 December 2023
Venue: Coimbra, Portugal
See website for details. Call closes: 25 September 2023.
LSAANZ Conference 2023: call for papers extended to 8 September 2023
Dates: 6–8 December 2023
Venue: University of Technology, Sydney
Theme: Voice, Resistance, and Repair: Law and living together
See website for details.
4th All India Legal History Congress: call for papers
Dates: 6–8 December 2023
Venue: School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India
See website for details. Closing date: 20 September 2023.
Mothers, Harm and the Northern Ireland Conflict
Date: 11 December 2023
Venue: Moot Court, Main Site Tower, Queen's University Belfast
See website for details.
White Collar Crime – Challenges and solutions: call for papers
Date: 12 December 2023
Venue: online, funded by the Society of Legal Scholars.
See announcement for details. Closing date: 9 October 2023.
2023 Asian Law & Society Association Annual Meeting
Dates: 15–16 December 2023 – Junior Scholars' Workshop: 14 December 2023.
Venue: Sunway University, Malaysia
See website for details.
Law & Society in South Asia (LASSA) Workshop
Dates: 15–17 December 2023
Venue: Lahore, Pakistan
See website for details.
2024
January
The Cultural Techniques of Law
Dates: 17–19 January 2024
Venue: University of Helsinki, Finland
See website for details.
Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law: Doctrines of Legal Insanity
Date: 18 January 2024
Venue: Swedenborg Hall, Royal Institute of Philosopy, London
Speaker: Claire Hogg, UCL
See website for details.
February
Justice, Care, Responsibility: Rethinking the family from a legal and philosophical perspective: call for papers from junior researchers
Dates: 8–9 February 2024
Venue: Geneva, Switzerland
See website for details. Call closes 15 October 2023.
Constitutional Communities: call for papers
Dates: 8–9 February 2024
Venue: KU Leuven, Belgium
See website for details. Closing date: 25 October 2023.
March
Annual Workshop on the Vienna School of Jurisprudence and the Pure Theory of Law: call for papers
Dates: 4–5 March 2023
Venue: Black Forest, nr Freiburg, Germany
See announcement for details. Closing date: 31 October 2023.
Social History of Civil Justice, 19–21st Centuries: call for papers
Dates: 7–8 March 2023
Venue: University of Vienna, Germany
See announcement for details. Call closes: 31 October 2023.
May
Deepfakes and the Law: call for expressions of interest
Date: 20 May 2023
Venue: City, University of London, Northampton Square Campus
See announcement for details. Closing date: 13 November 2023.
June
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2024: call for papers
Date: 6–9 June 2024
Venue: Hyatt Regency Denver, Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
Theme: 'Unsettling Territories: Tradition and Revolution in Law and Society'
See website for details. Call closes: 24 October 2023.
WG Hart Workshop 2024: 'Historicising jurisprudence: person, community, form', call for papers
Dates: 26–27 July 2024
Venue: Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London
See announcement for details. Closing date: 4 December 2023.
July
The Law and Humanities Roundtable 2024: call for papers
Date: July 2024 (tbc)
Venue: University of Southampton
See announcement for details. Closing date: 2 January 2024.
IVR Congress 2024, Seoul, Republic of Korea: special workshop and individual paper proposals
Date: 7–12 July 2024
Venue: Seoul, Republic of Korea
Theme: The Rule of Law, Justice and the Future of Democracy
See website for details. Call closes: 31 January 2024.
September
Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) Conference 2024
Dates: 3–6 September 2024
Venue: Bangor University, North Wales
See announcement for details.